I am about to build a weep water reclaim system. My spray wand gun holders are all piped to a pit in my pump room so the majority of the system already exists. I was thinking of using a procon pump to pump water from the pit to feed 2 selfserve bays. Of course I will need some filters and level control sensors to ensure the pit has water in it. If the pit is empty the normal weep system will run until the pit has enough water in it to continue useing the pump. Is the procon pump good for this application? I have never used a procon pump before. I can get a procon pump setup very cheap at a local surplus store along with several other types of pumps if another type would be better. The goal here is to use the least amperage possible.
Building weep water reclaim system
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soapy
Senior Member
You will also want to add a solenoid to your weep reclaim so that if the power goes off it will stay open and keep the weep system going. I had a ryko built system once and they used a starite pump to move the reclaim water.
soapy
Senior Member
I forgot to mention that you will also need some type of heater to heat the water.
Indiana Wash
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Uh, let's think about this. How big is your pit? I think that most of the time when your lines are weeping that you will not be using water nearly fast enough to keep the pit from overfilling or draining as it currently does. I can tell you that 2 SS's would not come close to using even 1/2 of all the water I weep in the winter months, especially since people don't use my SS's as much when it is cold.
I have never heated my weep water before and have never had a problem. My weep pit is approx 55 gallons (looks like someone sunk a 55 gallon drum in the floor). I just want to make sure the procon pump would be good for this application.
